"I reacted-" There's a glance up at the ceiling, a wrinkle that doesn't quite mar his features. "Explicitly." There's only a finite pause, because he has to.

"I told her to stop defending him, or what he'd done to her, before it became her person and not her possessions."

He looked back to Carlisle, with a stillness that isn't to be confused with remoteness or calm. "Before she had the chance to tell me any of it."